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Fith grade winner Maddy Roemeling's bookmark.

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Bookmark Contest winners named

The Juneau Public Libraries celebrated the Bookmark Contest with participating children in November. This event is sponsored each…

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Becoming Alaskan: Celebrating Christmas – Alaskan style

Endless aisles of ribbon and wrapping paper. Glittery, spangled trees in all shapes and sizes. Ubiquitous Christmas carols…

Surrounded by hundreds of common murres, an adult humpback whale shows its pectoral fin as it rolls in the water just outside the Don Statter Memorial Boat Harbor in Auke Bay on Monday. An increase in feed fish, herring, pollock and capelin, have been keeping a variety of birds and marine mammals feeding in the area for the last two weeks.

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Auke Bay’s Wild Kingdom

If you’ve visited Auke Bay’s Statter Harbor in the last few weeks, you’ve seen a world gone wild.…

The candy-stripe shrimp often associates with anemones, protected by the tentacles; sometimes it is found with other protectors too. The photographer commonly finds them associated with white anemones in our waters.

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On the Trails: Animals that help each other

As I was reading a research paper about the foraging behaviors of killer whales (orcas), I found a…

Snow experts Mike Janes and Ed Shanley assess conditions on Mount Roberts.

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Avalanche workshop aims to give people tools to survive

On a Friday night about a dozen years ago, Tom Mattice, then the owner of a snow cat…

An illustration of wires affected by air movement, drawn by Patricia Ann Davis, from the book Alaska Science Nuggets by Neil Davis.

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Alaska Science Forum: Mystery of the dancing wires revealed

In this quiet, peaceful time of year, with all the noisy birds flown south and all the scary…

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Mountain conditions

New snow (24 hours): • Base: 0 inches • Top: 0 inches New Snow (48 hours): • Base:…

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Christmas in Space at the Marie Drake Planetarium

The Marie Drake Planetarium will feature a free presentation on “Christmas in Space” Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 6:30…

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Trappings season opens on ABCs

The trapping season for marten, river otter, mink and weasel opened Dec. 1 on Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof…

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Troopers investigate deer wasting

Alaska Wildlife Troopers on Dec. 1 found a pile of discarded deer bones and meat in a dirt…

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November rain (and trap shooting)

On a cold, dark, rainy day in late November, the shooters at a Juneau Gun Club registered match…

Art by Mark Davis will be on view at the Canvas, along with other artists.

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Gallery Walk

Gallery Walk, the biggest First Friday event of the year, will be held this Friday, Dec. 4. Most…

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Beyond tattoos

Local artist Emily Rodkey usually works in ink, on the ever-changing canvas of the human body. But Friday…

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There is no such thing as ‘away’

I don’t like to cook. Luckily, at holiday time, my husband enjoys putting out a fine meal for…

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Alaska Arts Confluence presents First Friday with Jeffrey Moskowitz

HAINES — Alaska Arts Confluence will host an installation of original maps by local cartographer Jeffrey Moskowitz of…

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Movie listings

JUNEAU GOLD TOWN NICKELODEON For complete listings, visit www.goldtownnick.com. “Hamlet” with Benedict Cumberbatch, live from The Barbican. Saturday.…

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What’s happening this week

EVENTS Wildlife Wednesday; Photographing Alaska’s Wildlife by Michael Phelps, 7–8 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 2, Thunder Mountain High School…

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Holiday Pops Concert scheduled for Dec. 12 and 13

The Juneau Arts & Humanities Council will present the 8th annual Holiday Pops Concert, happening at the UAS…

Updated 'Nutcracker' features new choreography by Zachary Hench and Julie Diana

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Updated ‘Nutcracker’ features new choreography by Zachary Hench and Julie Diana

Juneau Dance Theatre will present its annual production of “The Nutcracker” at the Juneau Douglas High School Auditorium…

Tlingit weaver and teacher Lily Hope guides Auke Bay Elementary School second graders through the cultural exhibit in the Walter Soboleff Center on Nov. 19. The event was part of the Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child program, which was founded by the Kennedy Center to create full access to arts education programs and resources for K-8 students. The Kennedy Center works with 18 sites in the country and Juneau is one of them. Starting in November, all second-grade students in the Juneau School District began to go on annual arts excursions to the Walter Soboleff Building to learn about the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures.

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Art for all children

For a few days at the end of September, all the second graders in the Juneau School District…